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Jackson, Blyden Brown, 1937-2012

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African American civil rights worker from New Haven, Connecticut who served as the chairman of the New Haven, Connecticut chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the early-to-mid-1960s; he later founded and became the chairman of East River CORE, located on the east side of 125th street in Harlem, in New York City.

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Jackson, Blyden Brown, 1937-2012

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3 1964 Convention Workshops, circa July 1964

Creator:: Congress of Racial Equality. Milwaukee Chapter
Date of Original:: 1964-07
Collection:: March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project
Contributing Institution:: Wisconsin Historical Society